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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 12:58:16 PST
- From: kdb@ece.ucsb.edu (Kevin D. Barron)
- Message-ID: <9211192058.AA27052@summit.ece.ucsb.edu>
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- Subject: gopher-holics anonymous
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- Ok, so I got caught!
- I thought I was safe sneaking out of bed last night at 3am, but my
- wife caught me red-handed - "in-flagro delecto" (sp?) burrowed deep
- into a cosy gopherhole in Australia!
-
- So the time has come to either form gopher-holics anon or simply ask
- this group if there is a known gopher source for patent info. What
- follows is the request for info *after* having used veronica:
-
- >
- >Hi Kevin,
- >
- >I fiddled around with gopher (or rather 'munched'
- >around) but found no access to U.S.patent listings
- >but lots of peripheral junk.
- >
- >what I would love to have is given an inventor's name
- >as input, to get a list of invention titles and
- >U.S. patent numbers (abstracts would be even better
- >of course). As far as I know there is
- >a commerical service Dialog that offers
- >this at a very high cost per minute to their
- >subsribers. But it ought to be freely accessible
- >to the public, since the patent office no doubt has
- >this stuff on computer anyhow, at least for recent
- >years.
- >
-
- Thanks,
- Kevin
-